Mac’s Disk Utility RAID maker…

[Tad Newberry]

Cool, Jason. Thanks for the info.

thanks for helping out a bonehead!
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FCS3
2.66 GHz Quad-Core Mac Pro
6GB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce GT 120
…and a few TeraBytes o’ storage
(then it’s on to PetaBytes, ExaBytes and MosquitoBytes!)

[Rich Rubasch]

In 10 years I have never had anything but Raid 0 arrays. Every computer in our shop has a two-drive internal Raid 0 and an additional drive for projects, Photoshop elements, etc. The Raid 0 is ONLY used for the actual FCP scratch disc, and everything on those drives can either be reuploaded from tapes or brought in from our Footage backup drives. IN that scenarios we don’t see a need for the extra overhead and space hogging Raid 5, and I have never had a Raid 5 go down….ten years running.

Also, be sure your After Effects and FCP autosave points to a different drive than the project drive so if the project drive goes down there is another copy of your current work.

With this in mind you can have an internal system drive, a large Projects and associated elements drive, and a two-drive RAID 0 to handle the footage. Even if the Raid 0 blows up you should still easily be able to get back to work with minimum effort from the source tapes or backed up footage.

If you are still afraid of losing everything, a firewire 800 drive with a backup of all that stuff would be sufficient.

Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media Inc.
Video Production, Post, Studio Sound Stage
Founder/President/Editor/Designer/Animator
https://www.tiltmedia.com